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... or modified pagers or, indeed, if someone misunderstood their orders, an entire Greek army!

Both found guilty.

Darkness Over Germany: A Warning From History [ebay link] by E Amy Buller A series of first hand accounts of life in 1930's Germany telling how The Party slowly infiltrated everyday life. The resounding message is, "by the time we realised we had to act, it was too late". In newspapers, churches and schools - especially biology and history - The Party came to dominate everything; if The Party teaching wasn't taught then teachers were dismissed; their dilemma was whether to stay and do what they could - by making The Party nonsense a boring lesson and the true lesson exciting or to refuse to teach The Party line and leave knowing that a Party member would take over and indoctrinate the children with lies. Every newspaper was required to take on a Party member who would check that everything printed was in line with Party accord: if any newspaper owner dared to print anything otherwise, or was brave enough to criticise The Party then they were closed down - or worse. Slowly, surely, they crept in. But it was already too late. Coupla quotes "By the way, I saw an English newspaper [criticising us] saying how lacking in courage we must be not to stand up to the Nazis better. [...] Tell them we know we were blind fools not to have fought earlier and before we were in chains..." [of Hitler] "It is appalling that he knows no languages and that he has no real contact with the saner and more knowledgeable older members of the Foreign Office and that he takes all his advice from such swine as von Ribbentroff and people who have no understanding at all of international affairs." "...there is no doubt that one of the reasons Hitler has got such complete control is that many people were already frightened of communism and Hitler exploited their fear very cleverly. Of course, they never guessed, for who could, that the Nazis would do the very thing they most feared in communism, namely surpress the freedom of the church. the universities and the press and by their people's courts destroy the foundations of justice and law." Many parallels with present day events: highly recommended reading.

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Man, he bin well tangoed!

Hmmm nice thoughts. How about we combine both options and also keep it open as a tourist attraction so that everyone can go along and point and laugh?

I can only imagine that anyone who might have to have anything to do with that is just crying, "Nooo, in the name of god, no please, no"... and making themselves very, very busy on other projects that they can't be spared from. It be the equivalent of Lettuce Truss announcing that she's going to send a dozen old Bristol Beaufighters to Ukraine to help the fight against Russia. It was closed for a reason!

Wiki said. "Equisetum species may have been a common food for herbivorous dinosaurs... Analysis of the scratch marks on hadrosaur teeth is consistent with grazing on hard plants like horsetails." Maybe the meteor was a coincidence [citation needed]

Just on a point of pedantry: he still has the title but it has been agreed that he should no longer use it.

Have only checked the indexes but nothing regarding Equisetum/Mares tails in Winbolt, Wealden Glass; nor in Kenyon, The Glass Industry of the Weald. Winbolt mentions potash being produced from burnt bracken being used as a flux.

Yep, cut back to your main-frame in autumn/winter keeping and tying in any new growth that you want to extend the frame. When grapes first appear on a spring whip, cut the whip back to the fruit plus one or two leaves. This means all the growth goes into the fruit and not into producing great long leafy whips.

Wrong thread Gareth. I'm guessing you need to ask a friendly mod to shift for you.

This was change over just the last four years too, so not comparing modern aerodynamic car design with 60's designs and golden era memories as has been claimed by some.

I looked in at the BBC Live coverage of the proceedings a couple of times yesterday and yes, ev'tin TW says ^. Took their trackers er, phones, took pictures, left messages, didn't take scenic route, didn't delete the F out of everything. Right down to the meta-data for the pics giving the exact location of the tree! Seems - like the old boys who did the Hatton Garden job - they just had no idea what those little devices are capable of. I often wonder if there wasn't a cabinet/security meeting about twenty years ago; and someone said, "We are going to introduce a scheme whereby everyone will be forced to carry personal trackers and criminals will be required to film their criminal activity" And everyone just laughed. Then someone said, thoughtfully, "You know, we could make it work if we..." And the rest, as they say, is where you put your arm.

Update Amazon says any plan to list import charges was never approved and it "is not going to happen"

White House getting shitty about Amazon itemizing the Trump Import Tax on their customer invoices. You would think, wouldn't you?, that as it is his flagship program he would want this great... Oh hell, no, it's too much; I can't even finish writing that sentence: god only knows what it is. Anyway. It's as if they are trying to hide something isn't it? Like the fact that it is the customer, not the country, that will be getting charged. You know, like he said. "Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said... "This is a hostile and political act by Amazon," she said. "Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?" Er... why do you think?

He's always had to concentrate on the stairs... it's where Melania encouraged Barron to leave his toys. If you follow my meaning.

A grown man being cheered on while he bullies a child. I think it would be difficult to come up with anything that better illustrates Trump's America today.

I've no idea if it would work on a bay; but for twenty years I've been treating willow stumps with what was Verdone and is now Weedol for Lawns. You spray over the cut stump (to soak the bark) and you get no regrowth whatsoever; which for a willow is saying something: instead of a hedgehog-like mass of shoots: nothing. nada. zilch. I don't know if it kills the cambium of somehow stops the bark from forming new shoot buds; but it works. Like I say, I've never tried it on a bay; but, one, try it; two if you do get regrowth, wait for it to come into leaf and then spray the leaf growth when it is still young and tender. And as bay has a tendency to 'glossy' add a drop of Fairy Liquid (small squirt in 1L, big squirt in a 5L sprayer) to act as a surfactant*: it breaks down the surface tension so that the water can't 'hunch up' in droplets and roll/run off the leaf but 'smears' out across the surface. (Just like adding a wetting agent to the final rinse when developing a film). Oh and mix it double strength. Best of luck Yourn *on the leaves; not necessary on the freshly cut stump

What do I win?

Yes I know it was mistaken, that is why I asked for clarification; that was the whole point of my posting. But yes, grass to cut, must get on.

I don't know what the answer is, there are many answers; it's a complicated dynamic whereby an action in one area will affect many other areas to varying degrees: that is why a single local solution aimed at one single aspect will have very little broadscale effect overall. It's complicated, it can't be reduced to a soundbite. When you say 'studies from elsewhere'... do you mean Cornwall (say) or Tibet (again for the sake of argument)? How local an area do you concern yourself with? I was thinking purely in terms of the UK when I spoke of the UK bird pop decline.

Er that was the point of the discussion: I read your post; I made an assumption; I asked you to clarify. I agree with you that it seems to be a bad idea to remove this protection; but then I'm not a player on the world economic stage.

I didn't

I know why they were put in place, I was there, same as you, same as pretty much everyone else; I know the cost to the economy of the collapse. That wasn't what I was talking about, that can be taken as read. I was curious as to why you don't welcome the removal of government regulation in this case as you give the impression you are usually against such government interference. Again, after putting this up for discussion, you turn straight away to heaping personal abuse upon anyone who comes back to discuss it with you. There are no outstanding questions regarding biodiversity collapse: every study has verified every earlier study yet you dismiss the evidence as bs without presenting any evidence to the contrary.